{"id":102641,"date":"2025-10-27T00:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T00:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/102641\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T00:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T00:00:08","slug":"one-seriously-hurt-in-otago-highway-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/102641\/","title":{"rendered":"One seriously hurt in Otago highway crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element img-responsive file-odt-landscape-large-4-3\" data-delta=\"2\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/crash_271025.jpg\" width=\"630\" height=\"512\" alt=\"Emergency serious at the scene of the crash is which one person was seriously hurt. Photo: Peter...\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Emergency serious at the scene of the crash is which one person was seriously hurt. Photo: Peter McIntosh<\/p>\n<p>One person has been seriously hurt in a\u00a0crash involving two vehicles &#8211; one towing a caravan &#8211; which has blocked State Highway 1 near\u00a0Waikouaiti.<\/p>\n<p>Hato Hone St John said two patients were treated at the scene and taken to Dunedin Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>One person was in a serious condition and the other in a moderate condition.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to the accident around 10.20am on the bridge over the\u00a0Waikouaiti River.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One of the cars was towing a caravan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The road is blocked and diversions are being put in place,&#8221; a police spokeswoman said.<\/p>\n<p>Hato Hone St John said it responded with an ambulance, first response unit, and PRIME vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency said traffic was being diverted onto McGrath Road to the south, and Ramrock Road to the north, for light vehicles only.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Road users should expect delays and should avoid the area or delay their journeys if they can.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Allied Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency serious at the scene of the crash is which one person was seriously hurt. Photo: Peter McIntosh&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-102641","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}